Ada, although at first a little distant, starts each morning off by running out of her room and skidding to a halt 2 feet later with her tail up demanding a stroke, she runs around like a crazy cat a few times a day, but has always been very easy to pick up and keen to keep me properly groomed - if my forehead/ears/nose are within reach, they'll get licked until they are properly cat-clean. In the evenings she will pad me for ages, purring, before settling on my lap.
Babbage is, according to my mum, "a total cuddles tart". It takes nothing to get him on his back waving his paws in the air whilst he gets tummy tickles and he loves to be held in my arms whilst he pads me - at one stage my arm looked like I was self-harming because there were dozens of little cuts around the inside of my elbow where he had padded me with his claws out. He bounces up on my knee a few times a day and just as often onto the desk between me and my computer, head-butting me, burying his head into my chest, purring.
Both of my cats are very easy to pick up. Sometimes they'll get straight down again, but often they will stay either cradled in my arms or draped over my shoulder as long as the cuddles keep coming. Both are carried to bed in the evening ( they sleep in their own room ), but that is more about the practicality of getting 2 bengals in one room at the same time. I carry him in, close the door, then start playing a game of chase with Ada until I am allowed to catch her and carry her to bed.
They are also very affectionate towards each other- their play reminds me of Tom and Jerry - they run and chase and wrestle and anything that gets in the way is just collateral damage. In the midst of all this bitey-fighty wrestling they'll stop, groom each other, then try and pull each other's ears off/zoom off into another room. They'll often sleep together too.
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