Bode Miller’s wife has shared more photos of their daughter along with a new heartbreaking message to warn other parents about the dangers of drowning eight weeks after her toddler was found floating in a neighbor’s pool.
Morgan Beck Miller wrote in an Instagram post that she had been looking at old videos and photos of Emmeline and finding herself wanting to reach in and ‘just pull you out’.
‘Searching for ways to bring you back so our family is whole again. So our hearts are whole again. We miss you so much, my love,’ she said, in the post, alongside a couple of pictured of her toddler.
Beck also warned of the dangers of water for children.
Bode Miller’s wife has shared more photos of their daughter along on Instagram with a new heartbreaking message to warn other parents about the dangers of drowning eight weeks after her toddler was found floating in a neighbor’s pool
![Bode Miller's wife Morgan Beck is warning about the dangers of water around children. She broke down while discussing the awareness campaign in an interview earlier this week](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/07/31/16/4EB8766900000578-0-Bode_Miller_s_wife_Morgan_Beck_cried_as_she_warned_of_the_danger-m-12_1533052548359.jpg)
Bode Miller’s wife Morgan Beck is warning about the dangers of water around children. She broke down while discussing the awareness campaign in an interview earlier this week
![The family, pictured is Bode Miller, Morgan Beck and their kids, have been devastated by the loss of Emmeline](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/08/03/19/4ECDBC7100000578-6024175-The_family_pictured_is_Bode_Miller_Morgan_Beck_and_their_kids_ha-m-13_1533321626424.jpg)
The family, pictured is Bode Miller, Morgan Beck and their kids, have been devastated by the loss of Emmeline
The couple lost their daughter Emmeline on June 10 when she was found unresponsive in a neighbor’s pool in their gated community in Orange County, California.
The 19-month-old had slipped out the door without detection and toddled in to the water before anyone knew she was gone.
On Friday, 31-year-old Beck – who is pregnant with her fourth child – said parents had to start thinking of swimming pools and water ‘completely differently’ as she compared them in danger to ‘lions and kidnappers’.
She appealed to everyone in the family – ‘Parents, Grandparents, Siblings, Aunts and Uncles, EVERYONE’ – to think about the dangers of drowning even when not around pools or at the beach.
‘Understand that almost 70% of drownings occur when your children are not expected to be near the water. When you think they are in the playroom or on the sofa watching tv.
‘Always be aware of water and place as many barriers between your child and those bodies of water as possible (locks, door alarms, pool fences).
![Miller and his wife, beach volleyball player Morgan Beck Miller, lost their daughter, Emeline (pictured with Bode), in June after she fell into a pool at a neighbor's](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/08/03/18/4E9ECA6200000578-6024175-Miller_and_his_wife_beach_volleyball_player_Morgan_Beck_Miller_l-a-2_1533318990385.jpg)
Miller and his wife, beach volleyball player Morgan Beck Miller, lost their daughter, Emeline (pictured with Bode), in June after she fell into a pool at a neighbor’s
![Emeline slipped through a back door at the house and was discovered in a pool shortly later. She was taken to a hospital where she died the next day](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/07/31/16/4E9ECFEA00000578-0-Emeline_slipped_through_a_back_door_at_the_house_and_was_discove-a-7_1533051077806.jpg)
![The 19-month-old is pictured with her father](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/07/31/16/4EB8761600000578-0-image-m-6_1533051070109.jpg)
Emeline (pictured left and with her father, right) slipped through a back door at a neighbor’s house and was discovered in a pool shortly afterwards. She was taken to a hospital where she died the next day
‘None of us are immune to this devastatingly life changing statistic. It can happen so fast and forever change your world. #drowningprevention #helpspreadawareness #knowledgeispower #stopdrowningnow.’
On Tuesday, she urged parents to think of water ‘completely differently.’
‘[It’s] sort of like sitting here and I am looking outside at my pool and that is a lion.
‘That is a lion, that is a kidnapper. That is something that could take my child in 30 seconds.
‘And the moment those 30 seconds is up, the likelihood of you getting your child back is pretty close to zero,’ she told Today’s Savannah Guthrie from her home.
Bode, who retired from skiing in 2017, is also trying to raise awareness.
‘It’s the number one way that you could potentially lose your kid. And if it’s number one for me, I want to know about it,’ Bode said in the first part of the family intervie with Today.
He said he had an ‘obligation’ to help educate other parents, which in turn was healing for them.
‘I’ve been to all the pediatrician’s meetings and check-ups on our kids. And I can’t say it’s come up one time. Not a single time.’
![In an earlier interview, the 31-year-old was joined by her former Olympic skier husband Bode Miller](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/07/31/16/4EB06FC900000578-0-In_an_earlier_interview_the_31_year_old_was_joined_by_her_former-m-1_1533050836844.jpg)
In an earlier interview, the 31-year-old was joined by her former Olympic skier husband Bode Miller
![In the first part of the interview that aired on Monday, Bode said he felt he had an obligation to raise awareness of water safety for other parents](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/07/31/16/4EB0500200000578-0-image-m-13_1533052560123.jpg)
In the first part of the interview that aired on Monday, Bode said he felt he had an obligation to raise awareness of water safety for other parents
She spoke fondly of Emeline who she said embodied all of her father’s passion for sport.
‘She had this fierce personality but was such a girl. When you think of Bode and you think of his skiing and the passion that he brought on to the hill, take that and put it in a tiny little 19-month-old, blonde-haired, blue-eyed little girl that could create chaos.
‘And that was Emmy,’ she said.
Beck wept as she told how she prayed ‘every day’ to be able to go back to the day of Emeline’s death and do things differently.
‘There is not a day that goes by and I don’t pray for an opportunity to go back to that day and make it different. But now we have this opportunity to make other parents’ days different,’ she said.
More than a month after the loss, the heartbroken parents have kept Emmy’s room exactly the same it was as the day she died.
![Morgan is pregnant with the couple's fourth child. She is due to give birth in October and is pictured with Emeline during a scan before the toddler's death](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/06/12/01/4D253F2D00000578-5832859-image-m-7_1528762023231.jpg)
Morgan is pregnant with the couple’s fourth child. She is due to give birth in October and is pictured with Emeline during a scan before the toddler’s death
The couple relived the horror of the day they lost their little girl.
‘It was a normal day. Every morning, the kids would go swimming and Bode would go swimming with them, and they’d be in there for hours. And they loved it,’ Morgan said, adding that Emmy had ‘zero fear of the water.’
The family went to a birthday party before Morgan and Emmy spent the afternoon visiting with friends and grandparents. They returned home to say goodbye to Bode who was taking his oldest daughter to her softball game.
‘He was loading up the car when we got back and I gave him a kiss. And out of nowhere, she (Emmy) leaned over and gave him another kiss. And we were so amused by her reaction because it was not typical of Emmy,’ Morgan recalled tearfully. ‘So I kissed him again and she did it again and we laughed. Then I turned around and I walked inside and she waved and said bye to her Dad.’
![More than a month after the loss, the heartbroken parents have kept Emmy's room exactly the same it was as the day she died](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/07/31/16/4EB1399300000578-0-More_than_a_month_after_the_loss_the_heartbroken_parents_have_ke-a-2_1533050872072.jpg)
More than a month after the loss, the heartbroken parents have kept Emmy’s room exactly the same it was as the day she died
Morgan said that, as they often did, she and Bode’s four children went to visit one of their neighbors who she described as like ‘family to us.’
DailyMail.com learned that those neighbors were Greek restaurateur Perry Valaskantjis and his attorney wife Christy. The couple live next door to the Millers’ $1.9million home in the exclusive Coto de Caza gated community in Orange County, California.
‘We go over, back and forth, multiple times a week,’ she said. ‘And it was just a normal day over there. We sat on the sofa and she played in front of us.’
Morgan says she was enjoying a cup of tea while Emmy ran back and forth. But suddenly, she got a sinking feeling in her stomach.
‘All of the sudden, it was just too quiet for me,’ Morgan said. ‘We’re in mid-conversation and I stood up. And I turned and I went right to where the boys were and I said “Where’s Emmy?”‘
But it was then she spotted that the door, that lead to the backyard, had a ‘tiny sliver of light coming through the side.’
‘My heart sank and I opened the door and she was floating in the pool. And I ran and I jumped in,’ she said.
The Millers had their own pool fenced off so their children couldn’t fall in and had enrolled their older children in drowning prevention classes before the death of the little girl.
‘Guilt is a very painful thing,’ Morgan said. ‘And even though it’s awful and living with it is terrible, and I hope and pray and beg that it gets easier, I am now much more aware in that area to make sure it doesn’t ever happen again.’
The volleyball player explained the importance of scanning the surroundings of a house to make sure there were no open areas of water that could pose a threat.
‘When you go to someone else’s house, survey the home to see if it’s a safe place for your child to be,’ she said.
Morgan, who is pregnant, said that after losing Emmy, she wasn’t sure how she could bring a new child into the world.
‘Emmy was so excited to be a big sister. She walked around all the time with her baby. And now we have the opportunity to get to love that baby not only for ourselves, but for Emmy,’ Morgan said. ‘She was such a bright light and she was determined.’
‘She was just a bear. She had such a powerful bull-like personality where she just did what she wanted,’ Bode said.
![Morgan and the children were at a neighbor's home when Emmy was found floating in the pool (Miller's home circled in red on left, scene of the drowning on right)](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/06/12/21/4D2A86BE00000578-5836247-image-a-32_1528833607463.jpg)
Morgan and the children were at a neighbor’s home when Emmy was found floating in the pool (Miller’s home circled in red on left, scene of the drowning on right)
The couple said their other three children have been a source of strength through their loss.
‘When they talk about her and share stories, they always have a smile on their face,’ Morgan said. ‘And they constantly remind us we’re still here. And it allows us to bring our focus back to the things we still have to be incredibly grateful for.’
Bode and Morgan wed in 2012 and they have a three-year-old son, Nash Skan together. Miller is also father to two children from two previous relationships.
They are son Samuel, five, and daughter Neesyn, 10.
The couple announced they were expecting their third child together in a post on Instagram just weeks before Emeline’s death.
Miller, the most successful male American alpine skier of all time, has won six Winter Olympics medals, including a gold in Vancouver in 2010. He retired from ski racing in October 2017.