Other news stories said the girls did not attend the visit to the orphange, but rather stayed back at the hotel with Grandma, "making dolls."
Two of the children gave her homemade presents one of them an intricate origami figure and a girl in a wheelchair asked Obama in Russian if she had any children. The first lady responded through a translator that she has two daughters Malia and Sasha who she said remained behind in the hotel with their grandmother.