Mom 1 Ryan 0 - or is it the other way around?

Ryan lives to argue, debate, take the other side, drive me insain! Whatever you would like to call it. Whatever you say, even if he asked you the questions, he has a better answer and not only that, he has an explanation as to why you are wrong. It's like the moment he starts I can feel my entire body tense up as I brace myself for an extended debate. From the moment he is awake to the moment he falls asleep. Actually he can argue while dreaming, he is sort of famous for sleep talking.

He also knows all there is to know about Sara. She's tired, she's hungry, she wants me to mom, she doesn't like Jena. The minute I set her down he picks her up, if she cries and I don't immediately goes to her. While most of the time this is very brotherly and cute, it's not so cute when he gets her out of bed because she was whining and I just put her in it. Or out of the highchair when I just put her in it or I set her in her walker and get in the shower and the next thing I know he is hauling her in by her armpits and setting her outside the shower. (Which just happens to be at the base of the toilet. Hence the reason she is in her walker!!!) Sorry that was a little tangent I didn't intend to go off on.

Anyway, this morning I am asking Ryan what he wants for breakfast. He says Oatmeal with Brown sugar. I get out a package of Quaker Oatmeal Maple and Brown sugar. And he starts...

Mom that is not Brown Sugar Oatmeal.
Yes it is Ry.
No Mom, the package does not look like that.
They just changed what the package looks like Ry.
Mom....
Ryan do you have to argue with everything? It is silent for almost a full minute.
Hmmmm, I can see your point. And he walks out of the room.

I have no idea where is heard this expression, but I'm still not sure what to think of it. It's never that easy with him. That conversation would usually gone on until the oatmeal was cooked and Jena had taste tasted it to confirm it was in fact Brown Sugar Oatmeal. Not that I'm complaining, because I never complain! Nope, not me! :)

If I can just get Ryan through school he's going to make a great lawyer one day.