Term of Endearment: 'smiley'?

Question

I've done some looking around this and other forums, and I have some ideas about how to use terms of endearment, but I'm actually hoping to convey a particular concept and I'm having a little trouble finding the right term.

Specifically, my amigovio in Argentina comments often that I have a nice smile and hiis face is always full of smiles and warmth when we are talking online. In English, I'd greet him with 'hello smiley' or 'hello sunshine', and he'd understand that, but I'm working very hard on my Spanish and would like to be able to use a Spanish term.

'mi sol' seems to be a viable choice, and I've also seen 'reilón' suggested. Are these my best choices?

¡Gracias por leer!

I did that once on an earlier post, and I was corrected to use 'leyendo' becuase it's the gerund form of leer... ? - kahlan, Aug 25, 2010

In English that leyendo would be a noun (object of preposition) therefore you would need to use leer. Not sure if it is a noun in Spanish...Apparently it is not a noun in that phrase then. - 0074b507, Aug 25, 2010

Someone may have given you bad advice. I googled gracias por leer and found many results. None for gracias por leyendo. - 0074b507, Aug 25, 2010

The only thing that I am sure of is that the gerundio cannot be used as a noun. - 0074b507, Aug 25, 2010

I asked the smiley'guy in question, and he says 'gracias por leer' is correct use: 'We never use a gerund (leyendo) introduce by "por", "de", "a" or any preposition. In general it come with a verb conjugated.' - kahlan, Aug 25, 2010

Answer 1

"Carita sonriente' would be a direct translation of smiley face - you could say 'hola, mi carita sonriente' ...

Answer 2

How about 'sonriente'? I think that is the closest to smiley

Answer 3

Amigovio...that's cute. I hope that you were one the responders on the thread about how to say spork in Spanish.

Some form of Sonreír?

carita sonriente

reilón

I wasn't in the spork thread, but it sounds fantastic! :-) We use amigovio/a because we're clearly more to each other than just friends, but being at opposite ends of the earth makes it difficult to really embark on a 'novio/a' sort of relationship! - kahlan, Aug 25, 2010