Michelle Obama Watch

Michelle Obama and the weeMichelles arrived in DC last night in low key fashion for the start of school on Monday: Even without advance notice of their early arrival, a small crowd formed to greet the Obamas at the hotel, attracted by news cameras staking out the entrance. When the motorcade zoomed into the alleyway behind the building, onlookers strained on tiptoes, with cameras in hand, to see over Secret Service SUVs that largely blocked off the entire scene. No one saw much ... Read More

What will life be like in the white house for Malia and Sasha Obama? Will they be able to participate in "traditional" tween girl activities such as sleepovers and birthday parties? Can they really have a normal life? Associated Press writer, Jocelyn Noveck discussed this issue in one of her recent articles. NEW YORK -They're only 10 and 7, and already designers are angling to dress them. They've been on the cover of People and Us Weekly. And there's that standing invitation — unlikely though it is to be redeemed — to ... Read More

So I skipped over their headline photo of a topless Barack Obama and scrolled down the front page at the Huffington Post and saw a cute photo of Natasha "Sasha" Obama and had an ONTD ( Oh No They Didn't) moment when I read the headline "Sasha Obama's Sassy Vacation Sunglasses." Sassy? I wasn't the only one who had a problem with the headline: If HuffPo had just one black editor, they would immediately stop using the word "sassy" to describe this ... Read More

Jenna Hager and Barbara Bush ( The Bush Twins) were interviewd for People.com and said the following about the weeMichelles and that White House tour they gave las month: Any advice for Sasha and Malia Obama? Barbara: We gave them a tour. We were here when we were seven, which is Sasha's age, when our grandfather was President, and so we know how fun it was to be that age in this house. And so we showed them our little secret, fun places. Jenna: Well, ... Read More

The weeMichelles will be attending Sidwell Friends School along with some of the Biden grandkids. From the WAPO: The choice means that the Obama girls will be going to class on two separate campuses in two different cities. Sidwell's lower school is in Bethesda, Md., and that is where Sasha would be attending second grade. Malia is in fifth grade, and that is part of the middle school at Sidwell. The middle school is located on the same campus as the high school in ... Read More

Yes, on the occasional Saturday, I may have caught a brief glimpse of Hannah Montana ( I do mean brief), but apparently Miley Cyrus' Hannah Montana is all the rage among little girls, if the Platinum wigs and shimmering microphones crowding the Halloween costume aisles were any indication. Well apparently, the weeMichelles are Hannah Montana fans and they have been invited to appear on the show. Cyrus, the father of "Hannah Montana" star Miley Cyrus and also an actor on the hit ... Read More

Hours after we launched back in June, Salon.com sent us a boatload of traffic along with other larger blogs. Thanks! This time, Kate Harding gave a nod to "weeMichelles". She said the following at the beginning of her article called "American Princesses" The blog Michelle Obama Watch has been referring to Sasha and Malia Obama as the "weeMichelles" since it launched, and now that adorable title seems more appropriate than ever. It's not just Mom who's the style icon anymore --Salon.com Kate goes ... Read More

With all the attention given to the lava lamp "situation," almost overlooked were the weeMichelle's election night attire. Sasha Obama's dress cost $72 and the dressmaker wants everyone to know it. Gerson & Gerson Inc. says it has been calling retailers to let them know that 7-year-old Sasha Obama wore its black babydoll dress on Tuesday night. Barbara Zeins, president of Gerson & Gerson, figures stores may have had trouble figuring out that the dress was hers, in part because of the dark color ... Read More

So I was doing my mid afternoon stroll over at everyone's favorite cyberAuntie, Sandra Rose when I saw that she had a post up about Elizabeth Peyton's painting of Michelle and Sasha Obama. Sandra said that a concerned reader sent her an email saying that the painting was a play off of the famous photo of Coretta Scott King with Bernice King laying her head on her mother's lap during MLK's funeral. Sandra went on to say: The artwork’s similarities to the famous Coretta Scott ... Read More

Luckily after our initial post on this blog about Sasha and Malia Obama, the weeMichelles, we haven't had to post much about them other than a certain blogger saying Malia Obama was "too grown" in her Access Hollywood interview, but the Times Online did an interesting comparison of Sasha and Malia with young royalty in England. The title is Malia Obama and Sasha Obama: level headed girls facing a big change: Of all the children of famous faces, politicians’ children seem to have ... Read More