America's First Family

• The Obamas celebrate his victory in the presidential election Nov. 4 in Chicago with daughters, Sasha, 7, left, and Malia, 10. The children are the youngest residents of the White House since the Kennedy years.
  
  
  

  Jae C. Hong, AP

• The first family got a new addition, Bo, a 6-month-old Portuguese water dog, in April. The Obamas, lead by Malia clutching the leash, walk Bo on the South Lawn of the White House on April 14. Malia and Sasha had been promised a puppy by their parents.
  
  
  

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• The Obamas moved to Washington, D.C., over the first weekend in January so their daughters could start the year off in their new school, Sidwell Friends. Here, the couple get the girls ready for their first day of classes Jan. 5. Sasha is in second grade at the Sidwell's elementary campus in Bethesda, Md.; Malia is in fifth grade at the District of Columbia campus.
  
  
  

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• The Obamas are getting help settling into their new home from Marian Robinson, Michelle Obama's mother. Here, Obama clasps his mother-in-law's hand while watching election returns on Nov. 4. Robinson took care of her granddaughters through the presidential race, and Michelle has said that is the only reason she felt comfortable being away from the children.
  
  
  

  David Katz, Obama for America

• Michelle Obama, here with her mother on Aug. 26, comes from a family of modest means. Aside from her and her mother, the family included her older brother, Craig, who is now head basketball coach at Oregon State University, and their father, Frasier Robinson, who worked at a Chicago water plant. He died in 1991.
  
  
  

  Ted S. Warren, AP

• Michelle Obama, Craig Robinson and her daughters check out the podium at the Democratic National Convention in Denver on Aug. 25. Introducing his sister at the convention, Robinson spoke of how proud their father would be of Michelle "because of the hard-working, brilliant woman she is, what she's accomplished in her own right, the mother she's become, and the values she's instilled in her daughters."
  
  
  

  Ron Edmonds, AP

• Barack Obama comes from a less conventional family. He is the son of a white woman from Kansas and a black man from Kenya. Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Sr. met while they were college students in Hawaii and wed in 1960. Their son was born in August 1961. Barack Obama Sr. left to attend Harvard when his son was young, and the marriage ended in divorce. Here, Obama's mother holds him in the early 1960s.
  
  
  

  Obama Campaign / AP

• Obama poses for a photo with his father when he was 10. He saw little of him during his childhood. The senior Obama died in 1982. The president has a younger half-brother, George Obama, who lives in Kenya. The two have met, but barely know one another.
  
  
  

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• When Obama was a small boy, he moved with his mother to Indonesia after she remarried. She and her Indonesian husband had a daughter. In this photo from the 1970s, Obama poses with his mother, his step-father, Lolo Soetoro, and his infant sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng.
  
  
  

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• A young Obama plays on a beach with his maternal grandfather, Stanley Dunham, in the 1960s. As a teenager, Obama asked to stay in Hawaii with his grandparents to attend high school. His mother agreed, a decision that she found very difficult, according to a 2008 interview with Obama's sister.
  
  
  

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