What do you mean "Noise"?

After almost a month and a half of preschool and not quite two months in our apartment we have two firsts:

1) Alex falls in the squat toilet at school.

2) We get several noise complaints by our downstairs neighbor.

Now Alex arrived home from school in completely different clothes (she had a spare set at school in case of accidents) and sported a tremendous long and dark bruise on her thigh (that's a nicely scratched mosquito bite on her calf). Her teachers rang Linlin to explain what had happened - apparently Alex had lost her balance whilst in the bathroom and fallen into the tiled trench toilet. Nice. What was nice, though, was that the teachers laundered her clothes.

A previous Fulbright family had left us many things - including toys - and Alex was very keen on her plastic high heels. Unfortunately our downstairs neighbor was not nearly as keen and he made several visits to us to complain about the amount of noise and also that it started too early in the morning (remember Sebastien was up and ready for the day before 5am most days). He complained about the heavy walking that he could hear and wanted to teach us how to walk properly (though we go barefoot/ sock footed or slippered in the house). He also wanted us to keep the kids in bed until 9am!! I mean, Alex and Brett have to leave by 7.15am most mornings in order to make it to the school bus on time so that wasn't going to happen. I said that I'd try to keep them in bed til 6am - somewhat of a compromise. As well, we banished the high heels and put foam on the floor of the playroom in an effort to dampen the noise. We still had a complaint (this time Brett was home and I was away) and whatever Brett conveyed has meant that we haven't seen our neighbor (other than in passing) since.