I learned to ask each girl separately.

Chloe did not have to speak for the other five.

Sometimes the youngest answered with a picture rather than a sentence, and sometimes the triplets argued over whose event came first.

We made room on the page and started again.

The girls grew.

Some stopped making invitations for their mother.

Others continued asking whether I had sent the information until the question became too tiring to repeat.

I did not require all six to stop hoping at the same time.