Salem's a crawler!

Our Minot house

Jake is on the way to Minot to check out our house. According to neighbor two doors down who works with our tenant, our house got about 3" of water on the main floor and the basement is most likely full. His basement is full, and he got a foot of water on the first floor. He also had to get rid of all the sheetrock, even upstairs. At least people are ripping stuff out and rebuilding instead of just demolishing their homes. I have no idea what something like this costs, but I am really thankful that Jake will be there tomorrow to get started on some of the work himself. One of our friends from church is going with him, so they will have a few days of working together before Paul flies out. I'm thankful that Jake doesn't have to do the first few days work by himself, and I pray that someone else will be able to help him after Paul leaves.

Jake left this morning--and Salem learned to clap and took one crawl step today. Isn't it crazy how that works? I got a video of the clapping that I'm going to try to post, but Blogger hasn't been letting me post videos lately. I don't know if they are too big or what.