Barack Obama Sr. poses with his son in the Honolulu airport during Obama Sr.’s only visit to see his son while he was growing up in Hawaii. Young Barack was in the 5th grade when the photo was taken

Barack Obama with his maternal grand parents, Stanley and Madelyn Dunham during a 1982 visit to New York , where Obama was attending Columbia (Courtesy of The Obama Family)

Barack Obama walks with his grandmother Sarah Hussein Obama at his father’s house in Nyongoma Kogelo village, western Kenya , in Aug. 2006 (AP file)

Barack Obama with his grandmother, Sarah Hussein Obama, in Africa (Courtesy)

Barack Obama as a toddler (Courtesy of Barack Obama)

Barack Obama as a child (Courtesy of Barack Obama)

Barack walks along Waikiki Beach shortly before he and his mother moved from Hawaii to Indonesia to live with her second husband, Lolo Soetoro, in 1967

Barack poses with his mother, Ann, half sister, Maya, and maternal grandfather Stanley Dunham in Hawaii in the early 1970s after the family returned from Indonesia. Neighbors remember the close relationship between young Barack and his grandfather

A page from Barack Obama’s senior yearbook features his personalized message to family, friends and teammates. (Photo from The Oahuan Yearbook)

Just goes to prove you can be anything you WANT to be…