circle of life

The Mirage story



Ok apparently kids remember things that parents sometimes like to forget. (For example)
Emmy was one year of age and we were leaving a shopping center, I believed that I must have snapped the buckles of the car seat incorrectly (might I add this has not happened again), anyway, Gabby was sitting in the back seat and Emmy slid right out of her seat. Mommy was driving and Gabby looked at EMMY and ask Mommy one question? “YES Gabby “were is Emmy? I said ‘’ WHAT’ stopping the car FAST.

I know were you think this is going and I did not leave my child any were. She was in the car the whole time, she was sitting on the carpet cause she slid out of her car seat. Thank God she was all right. I stopped right away and it was only like 3 minutes into the driving.


So like I said a moment ago, I would like to forget this event. KIDS



Well, heading to school my 8 year old Gabby says “remember that story” and recites it once more “I thought that I saw a mirage of Emma’s” I laughed so hard in the car pool line and said “what do you mean by “a mirage” she replies “a MIRAGE, like when you see more of something” I said “hallucinations”

-no, Gabby again repeated the word
Gabby says “MOM, I am right, go home and Goggle it”

I laughed and said “expect a full report after school” Gabby replies “ok go see that I am right and tell me latter”

Did I say that kids are smarter then parents sometimes. I did goggle it as soon as I came in the house and made Emmy her breakfast

Sci-Tech Encyclopedia:

Mirage:

A name for a variety of unusual images of distant objects seen as a result of the bending of light rays in the atmosphere during abnormal vertical distribution of air density. If the air closer to the ground is much warmer than the air above, the rays are bent in such a way that they enter the observer's eyes along a line lower than the direct line of sight. The object is then seen below the horizon, the inferior mirage. If the air closer to the ground is much colder than the air above, the rays are bent in the opposite direction, arriving at the observer's eyes above the line of sight; the object then seems to be elevated or floating in the air, the superior mirage. Mirages can be seen most frequently along an overheated highway surface; the inferior mirage of the sky gives the impression of water reflection over a wet pavement, which disappears upon a closer viewing