Morgan Miller Remembers Late ‘Baby Girl’ Emmy 4 Years After Her Drowning: ‘We Miss You’

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A heartbreaking tribute. Morgan Miller remembered her and Bode Miller‘s late daughter Emmy on the fourth anniversary of her death.“We miss you so much baby girl,” the beach volleyball player, 35, wrote via Instagram on Friday, June 10, alongside a video montage of Emmy that Bode, 44, also reposted on his Story. “Keep moving mountains.” For her soundtrack, Morgan chose the Glass Animals song “Heat Waves,” which includes the lines, “Sometimes all I think about is you / Late nights in the middle of June.”The California native and the Olympic gold medalist welcomed Emmy in November 2016.

Less than two years later, the little one died at 19 months old after falling into a neighbor’s pool and drowning.“I opened the door, and she was floating facedown in the pool,” Morgan recalled in an August 2021 interview with CBS This Morning. “I jumped in, and I pulled her out.

And I started CPR … Every time I close my eyes at night to go to sleep, it replays in my head. It happens so fast.”After the tragedy, the model and her husband both became outspoken advocates of water safety as well as parental vigilance. “I think a lot of parents feel like it’s not going to happen to them because they think it will happen during swim times when they’re watching their children,” Morgan explained. “This truly is an issue, how many parents have reached out to us and said, ‘I put my child down for a nap; that was the last time I saw my child alive.’”Bode, for his part, encouraged other parents to look at their family as an example of what can happen. “Once it becomes something that everyone is aware of, we can really prevent these kinds of tragedies,” he explained. “At the end of the day, what happened to us is horrible for us, and I think a lot of