President Barack Obama helps US First Lady Michelle Obama off the stage after thanking the White House chefs during the 2014 State Dinner for French President Francois Hollande on the South Lawn of the White House./CFP Photo

At the president's insistence, Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes brought his daughter Ella by for a visit. As she was crawling around the Oval Office, the president got down on his hands and knees to look her in the eye./CFP Photo

Obama bends over so the son of a White House staff member can pat his head during a visit to the Oval Office./CFP Photo

President Obama runs down the East Colonnade with family dog "Bo." /CFP Photo

The president hugs his wife Michelle after she introduced him at a campaign event in Davenport, Iowa./CFP Photo

A nice way to celebrate the New Year for the president was to jump in the ocean in his native state of Hawaii. He was on his annual Christmas vacation with family and friends, and went swimming at Pyramid Rock Beach in Kaneohe Bay./CFP Photo

In 2012 Obama gets caught in Spiderman's web, as he greets three-year-old Nicholas Tamarin, just outside the Oval Office. /CFP Photo

Barack Obama jokingly mimics US Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney's "not impressed" expression while greeting members of the 2012 US Olympic gymnastics teams in the Oval Office./CFP Photo

Obama puts his toe on the scale as Trip Director Marvin Nicholson tries to weigh himself during a hold in the volleyball locker room at the University of Texas in Austin./CFP Photo

The president fist-bumps White House custodian Lawrence Lipscomb in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building./CFP Photo

The president carries the twin boys of Katie Beirne Fallon, Director of Legislative Affairs, into the Oval Office just a few months after they were born./CFP Photo