<human>: Can you provide a brief rundown of the text in within 3 sentences?

I moved into an apartment complex a couple of months ago and around October got a pair of kittens and my troubles began. I live on the second floor of a two story apartment complex in a 1/1 with a husband and wife below me. Around December when the kittens started becoming more of a normal cat in size, weight, and activity my downstairs neighbors started complaining of the cats making noise at night. I started by just lining my bed with my unused pillows to stop thuds from them jumping off at night. Didn't help and complaints increased in frequency and intensity.

Here I am almost two months later after having spent almost 600 dollars on extra carpeting for my tiny apartment and experimenting with feeding them at different times of night to make them sleep longer. I've tried separating them with one in he bathroom and one in the living room but they both just meow all night. I've tried putting them in the bathroom but they just jump off the counter and still wake up the neighbors.

I have no idea what to do anymore. Crating isn't really an option because the neighbors are banging on their ceiling as early as 730 pm and having them in a cage from 7pm to 8 am is unthinkable . In the past two weeks I've been woken up by them coming to our door and slamming on it to get us to do something about the cats. I came home to my girlfriend in tears one night because the husband came and basically just screamed at her and accused her of not doing shit to quiet the cats down.
<bot>: downstairs neighbors are irate over cats being noisy at night and I'm at a total loss of what to do to help them.