WASHINGTON — A teenager now lives at the White House.
Malia Obama, the eldest of President Barack Obama’s two daughters, turned 13 on the Fourth of July.
As usual, she was sharing her parents with hundreds of others on her special day.
Malia’s birthday has been a source of angst for the president, whose recent public comments on that milestone have ranged from fear of what lies ahead to acceptance that daddy’s little girl is, well, growing up.
Obama recently said in a television interview that Malia and her sister Sasha, 10, are kind, respectful, responsible and well-behaved.
“I could not ask for better kids,” he said. “I’m not anticipating complete mayhem for the next four, five years. But I understand teenage-hood is complicated.”
But Obama, who is approaching a milestone birthday of his own — he turns 50 on Aug. 4 — also has seemed accepting of the inevitable. At a news conference last Wednesday at the White House, the president twice said Malia was 13.
That was five days before her actual birthday.
