Hot-footed toddler, cat found
FIRST ON 7: A toddler has been reunited with his worried family after he was found barefoot in pyjamas, and alone on an NSW south coast street.
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 this 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, vet nurse Beck Buttenshaw said.
"I just dropped my bag and ran out and got him."
Antwan's walk had started in a laneway by his home. and continued through a reserve.
After navigating his way through the park Antwan's next obstacle was six lanes of Shellharbour 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 - so he can sleep safely in his bed tonight.
