Two-year-old boy safely back home after going on early morning adventure with his cat

A toddler has been reunited with his worried family after he was found barefoot in pyjamas, and alone on a street in Illawarra, New South Wales, Australia. The-two-year-old had wandered away from home while his grandparents slept, on a big and potentially dangerous adventure - with the family pet, 'Kitty Kat'.



Antwan is what you would call an active child, and on Tuesday morning while his grandparents and twin sister were sleeping, the toddler took himself on his biggest adventure yet. "We'd slept in," his grandmother Melinda said. "There were no toys or mess. I was like 'where's Antwan?'" He had climbed onto a chair, unlocked the front door and escaped, along with his pet cat.

He was 500 metres from home when Beck Buttonshaw saw Antwan in his pyjamas calling out for "nana". "He was at that driveway and he wandered across into the middle of the road and a truck pulled out and I don't think he had seen, Ms Buttenshaw said. "I just dropped my bag and ran out and got him."


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Antwan's walk had started in a lane by his home. and continued through a reserve. After navigating his way through the park Antwan's next obstacle was a busy six-lane road and somehow, the two-year-old got across. His grandparents only realised he was gone two hours later. "All I could think was oh my god he's floating in water somewhere," Melinda said. "Very lucky she found him. Handed him in. Got him off that road." When they called police, Antwan was already in the care of officers.