Hi

I have had my lovely tom cat from a kitten and he is now 3 years old.  I
have never owned a tom cat before and he is just so adoreable, but there is
a behaviour that he does religiously every single morning and wondered why
he does it.

He sleeps in the house but late at night he always sleeps at the side of me.
When I wake in the morning he is basically waiting for me to wake up, the
moment I stir, he is there in my face.  He then starts to purr loudly and
then rolls all over me, putting his paws on my eye lids, or nose or mouth.
He then rubs his face under my neck, in my hair, in my face and even though
I push him away he just keeps doing it all the time and this can go on for
up to an hour.

Its not got to the stage where when I know I am awake, I keep my eyes shut
so I can have about another 15 minutes to wake up properly otherwise he
literally dives into my face.

I then get up and he is so under my feet I stumble and trip up over him even
though he knows I have to go to the bathroom, and he sits on the edge of the
bath until I am ready to leave and then as I go to walk down the stairs he
races like a lunatic to the bottom and looks back to make sure I am walking
down the stairs.  This has been going on since he was about 1 year old and I
just would like ot know if this is normal behaviour and if so what is he
doing and why?

Thanks