Terrie, my cat does pretty much the same thing but adds in kneading, with her claws!!!! One we used to have would stick his little bewhiskered nose in my ear. That will wake you up quick. I'm not sure I'd like my cats to appreciate coffee, and the stinking silkie roo needs to learn that crowing while it is pitch dark and hours from dawn might get him left out to greet dawn and the raccoons all by his lonesome.
I am not a morning person.