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Chapter 3

"Ma..." Snow looked at her daughter waiting for her to finish the word but Emma just closed her mouth. This had been happening a lot lately. Emma would start a word but not finish it leaving both of her parents watching her so intensively for days now.

"Just one more 'ma', Emma, that's all you need, can you say 'mama'?" Snow looked at Emma again who was watching her mother's lips move. Emma's lips were closed and they weren't opening. "I swear you are just teasing me, you little princess." She tickled her daughter who let out a little laugh "Now you open your mouth, eh?" Snow joked around with her daughter.

"I still see we have yet to master the second 'Ma'." Charming looked at his wife from the door. "What about the 'Pa'? You would tell me if she said it, right?"

"Of course I would tell you. I wouldn't hide her first word from you just so I can say it was 'Mama'." She looked at her daughter as she said the word.

"Snow, take it easy, Emma will talk when she wants to talk." Charming had been going over this with Snow for the past couple of weeks since she had gotten it in her mind that Emma was going to start speaking at any moment.

"I know but I don't want to miss it." Snow let Emma back onto the floor and watched as she went directly back to her pile of plush toys.

"Ulf." Emma kept on repeating as she searched through her pile of toys. Snow laughed at her daughter's mumbling. Out of all the noised Emma would make she has heard 'Ulf' a lot followed by 'eh' and 'ah'.

"How could you miss it? You have Emma attached to your hip 24/7, Snow. Not that she complains but still."

"I like having my daughter with me. I know some people find it weird that we don't really have a nanny for her but I just don't feel right leaving her with someone else. I'm her mother, you're her father and we take care of our child, it's that simple. I don't want Emma growing up without seeing us all day and finding that her nanny is more of a mother than I am." She admitted to her husband and looked back at her daughter.

"I never complained about it, Snow. I don't understand how people could do it. I mean maybe it's the way I grew up. I thought I might have to fight you to not have to get one." He looked at his wife who looked hurt at his insinuation. "Not like that Snow. I would never doubt that you wouldn't want to care for Emma, but the way I was raised and you were raised were different. You had a Nanny." He tried to defend himself.

"Yes I did have one. She was the loveliest lady and would do anything for me, but my mother also had a lot of involvement in my upbringing until she passed. People found it weird back then, but still my mother always wanted to be the one to teach me." Snow walked over to the rocking chair. Once she sat down, Emma just looked at her wondering why she had moved away and then looked back up at her father who was still standing in the doorway and then back at her toys.

"I'm sorry, Snow, I didn't mean for it to come off like that. Since the day we met I could imagine no one else being the mother of my children and the best mother in the world." He looked down and smiled at Emma and gave her head a little kiss and walked towards the chair. He knelt down next to his wife. "You are the most wonderful mother I've ever met, and Emma is so lucky to have a Mama like you." He kissed her cheek.

"You charmed your way out of that one." She smiled.

"Well, I use my powers for good." They both laughed.

Emma decided she didn't like being out of the loop so she crawled over to the chair. She raised her arms up but her parents were too busy looking at each other to realize that she wanted to go up. So in effort to get her parent's attention she opened her mouth. "Mama." She raised her arms again as both parents looked at her. Snow with a wide smile on her face. Still not having what she wanted she tried again. "Mama."

Snow couldn't keep the tears in and let a couple roll down her cheek as she picked her daughter up who smiled at her in a way of thanking her mother for doing what she wanted. "Emma, you said Mama." She kissed her daughter's cheek.

"Mama," she repeated.

"Aww man, it's always the mama." He joked as he proudly kissed his daughter "See, she even agrees that you're the best mama."

"It's because I have the best baby." She smiled and kissed her husband and looked back at her daughter in her arms. "Do you know who mama is?"

Emma reached her arms around her mother and gave her a hug. "Mama."

Snow just smiled. Not only was mama her first word but she understood who her mama was.

"Now we just have to teach her to say 'papa'," Charming joked, "Emma, am I mama?" The little girl giggled and shook her head. "We have a smart daughter."

"Well, of course we do." Snow smiled and stood up placing Emma on her hip. "She is our daughter after all."

"Mama, mama, mama, mama." Emma clapped her hands with excitement but it soon went away as she grew tired.

"Well, that was fun," Snow giggled, loving every single moment of hearing those words.

"I think we're going to have to teach her more words. 'Mama' won't really get her far."

"Of course it would get us far, our mama always knows what we want. Isn't papa silly, Emma?" Snow pulled her daughter in close to her chest feeling her exhaustion.

"Papa," Emma whispered.

"What?" Snow looked down at her daughter. "Charming, did you just hear that?"

"Hear what?" He moved around the room to his wife and daughter's side.

"She said 'papa'."

"Now, don't go saying that to make me jealous." Charming bent down to pick up Emma's toys.

"No, I promise you that's what she said." She looked back down at Emma. "Emma, tell papa what you just told mama." No answer. "Hmm, Emma, can you tell me what you just said?"

"Papa," she let out another whisper.

"She did it! She said 'papa'!" Charming gently took his sleepy daughter from his wife and hugged her. "And who's papa?" The little girl pointed at her father which made his smile grow.

"Papa." She smiled and yawned. She turned her head a little and saw her mother smiling with a couple tears in her eyes. "Mama." she looked at her and reached out.

"What is it, my baby?" Snow took her back and Emma, with a worried expression, reached her little fingers towards her mother's tears.

"Oh baby, I'm ok. I'm just really, really happy." She kissed her little head and Emma looked proudly at her father and realized that he was holding her toys. She reached for her father and he gladly took her into his arms. Once she was there she took a hold of her plush wolf and smiled.

"Ulf."

"Uh, Snow." Snow looked at Charming. "I hate to break it to you, but I don't think 'Mama' was her first word."

"What on earth are you talking about?" She gave him a questionable glare.

"I think I figure out what 'Ulf' means." He laughed as he signaled down to his daughter who was hugging plush wolf in her little arms.

"You have got to be kidding me." Snow started to laugh at the realization. "Well, Red will be happy to hear that." Snow shook her head in amazement. "Well, her first word that she pronounced correctly was 'Mama' so…" She laughed.

"Anything you say, dear," He nodded as he pulled his daughter in for tight hug.