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Perhaps, our cultural take on miracles indeed creates some dissonance with the way Egyptians would react to them. I.e. while the Torah does not present the situation as miraculous, our tradition tells us that Mitzrim indeed interpreted events of Moshe's rescue as miraculous and attributed him supernatural powers from that moment on. Moshe survived because he was an unusually big child. Because Moshe did not drown in the Nile river (an object of worship), egyptians interpreted as if he had powers over it. Later Pharaoh considered himself a god and would not speak to Moshe if there was no known supernatural reputation about him.