( CNN ) The father of baby Lily , found by rescuers after her mother 's car flipped into a river , says she 's doing great and that he feels blessed . Rescuers found the toddler Saturday hanging upside down in the car , which had crashed into a frigid Utah river a day before . Lily 's mother , Lynn Jennifer Groesbeck , died in the crash that had landed their car on its roof in the Spanish Fork River . She was 25 . Deven Trafny , 34 , was out of town on a job at the time of the accident , CNN affiliate KUTV reported . He rushed to his daughter 's side as soon as he heard . `` ( I ) came in , I put my finger in her hand , and I told her her Dad was here , and I love her , '' he told reporters Wednesday . `` I have n't left her bedside since , and I 've just been here just sitting next to her waiting for her to get better so she can come home . '' Trafny said that Lily is awake and has been singing nursery rhymes . Video of the two of them at a hospital shows her waving at a camera . `` She knows everything she knew before anything happened . It 's amazing . Doctors say it 's amazing , '' he said . How did toddler survive car crash in Utah river ? Lily might have died unseen with her mother had a man not gone fishing in that particular spot Saturday . The angler waded into the river around noon , then noticed the car wheels-up in the water . The fisherman called emergency dispatch . The water was so cold that , when the rescue was over , seven of the men involved had to be treated for hypothermia . They heaved the car onto its side and saw Groesbeck in the driver 's seat . It was clear to them that she was dead . Lily was still strapped into her seat , where she may have been for 14 hours , if the wreck occurred at about 10:30 Friday night , as police believe . Trafny described Groesbeck as the love of his life , according to KUTV : `` I 'm going to miss her a lot . I still have to deal with that . '' But he also considers himself lucky to still have his daughter -- healthy and alive . `` I 'm just blessed . I 'm counting all my blessings right now , '' said Trafny . CNN 's Ben Brumfield contributed to this report .
Baby Lily was trapped in the car in the cold river for as long as 14 hours . The baby girl died on Sunday after being left inside a locked vehicle overnight while her mother and father were at work. It 's amazing , '' father says . Lily 's mother , Lynn Jennifer Groesbeck , died in the crash .