"We're not even sure we can sing her Happy Birthday because there are other ill children in same room as she is, notwithstanding stimulation might not be the best for her."
He hoped she could understand what was happening around her because nurses had told them she may not remember much because of the sedatives.
"When she opened her eyes the other night she saw me and recognised me. She began to cry ... I'm hoping she did [recognise] because when we are talking, her eyes immediately open up and she starts looking around."
Mr Fraser said the only food Hineraukura could eat at the moment was a milkshake. "So we were thinking we could still maybe have a milkshake with her and then go for dinner with the immediate family somewhere."
He said Hineraukura's parents, Deacon King and Anahere Fraser, were coping as well as could be expected.
He took Ms Fraser, his daughter, to Sylvia Park yesterday for some "retail therapy" to help clear her head.
Since Hineraukura has been at Starship she has had a cast put on her right leg and screws put into her back but doctors haven't been able to put a neck brace on.
The family did not blame the driver of the ute because they know it was only an accident.
"We have an idea what happened. She ran out on the road in front of a parked car so she wouldn't have seen the ute around the corner."
He has spoken to the ute driver, who is badly shaken, to put his mind at ease because children could be so "unpredictable" and Hineraukura had been told not to go onto the road.
The extended family have been taking turns to sit with Hineraukura in six-hour rostered shifts so there were two people at her bedside at all times.