B-speak that we miss

girlos and bees -- girls and boys
hnow -- snow (and also hnake and hnomato -- we're not sure how to explain that last one)
shlide -- slide
gorilla bar -- granola bar
copaco bird -- tropical bird

I thought of another one!
cept -- because (we don't know exactly why or how, but he said this all the time for a year. "Why don't you like mushrooms? Cept they're yucky.")

The few remaining that we cherish:

six favanue -- sixth avenue
role-model homes -- model homes
speed lemon -- speed limit
blue spluce twees -- blue spruce trees
naked pants -- self-explanatory

Don't get me wrong. The kid has always had freakishly good verbal skills. But he is funny as hell sometimes too. He was talking about fireworks this summer and couldn't remember what they were called. His way of getting it across: "those things that go boom-crash and then they make sparklies in the sky." And last Christmas he couldn't remember Rudolph's name -- he called him "that red-nosed deer guy."

And no, no adoption news to report. Don't you think I would've started with that if I had it?! Excitement and optimism and rapidly giving way to sadness and resignation on that front.