Here's a New York Times article on something that we had heard about months ago. President Obama's sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, along with her husband, Konrad, and their two daughters, are relocating to DC for a few months.  (We congratulated Konrad during our AAPI House Party Call back in May. He'll be doing his research on online political activism.)

Ms. Soetoro-Ng, who has given up her job as a high school teacher in Hawaii, has a book contract and a new baby. Her husband, Konrad Ng, a professor at the University of Hawaii, will become the scholar-in-residence at theSmithsonian Institution’s Asian Pacific American Program here next month.

Museum officials say Mr. Ng will stay in Washington through December, when he will return with his family to Hawaii. There, he will complete his yearlong term as resident scholar. The family is not expected to move into the White House, though they are very close to the Obamas

There's a lot of great tidbits on the two siblings and how close they are.  

Growing up, she said, Mr. Obama introduced her to music, literature and new neighborhoods. He helped her decide which dates she should keep and which she should ditch. He spoke at her wedding and helped her grieve when her father died.

As adults, they often celebrated Christmas in Hawaii, playing Scrabble — Mr. Obama trounced her in an intense match the month before the Iowa caucuses — and savoring time with their families.

And after their mother died of ovarian cancer in 1995, they stood together near the water’s edge in Hawaii and scattered her ashes in the Pacific.

“He’s someone who really enlarged my perspective,” Ms. Soetoro-Ng told the Canadian television network CTV in November.

“He took me to colleges around the country to help me make a good decision about where to go to school,” she said. “He took me with him to go work in the South Side of Chicago and to help communities and to do voter registration and showed me that it was important to be active and to be an activist.”

I'm sure with all the craziness and changes in their lives, the President will really come to rely on having Maya, Konrad and their daughters in town. I can already picture Malia and Sasha fighting over baby-sitting duties!