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And finally, the Honolulu quintuplets came home for their first Christmas, instead of spending it in a hospital.

"It's definitely the best Christmas gift we could have gotten, to have them home for Christmas," mother Marcie Dela Cruz told reporters Thursday from Kapiolani Medical Center for Women & Children, via Fox News.

October 10 was their birthday, when they were born premature, less than 3 pounds each in Honolulu. Doctors gave then three months to let their lungs develop completely.

Now each baby is between 5 and 8 pounds, health officials say, called scienceworldreport.

Hawaii's "first surviving set of quintuplet's", according to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. are comprised of four boys----Kapena, Kaolu, Keahi and Kupono and one girl called Kamalii.

Strangely, their first son, two-year-old Makaio, had been conceived through in-vitro fertilization. The parent couple then set aside a number of embryos for more children. Finally, they found in spring, that a couple of the embryos had transferred.

"We didn't set out to make history," the mother of six said. "We were just blessed with these babies, and they're doing so great."