That is until some serious work got done on the various houses, pretty soon having Max near your gingerbread house was as about desirable as having Godzilla near Tokyo.
Eventually Michelle was the only person willing to hold him and let him "help" with her house, and you can see how helpful he was.
Just to demonstrate I took a picture of the side of Michelle's house that she did without Max's help

and then the side done with the help of the Max man.

There were some other lovely gingerbread creations made.
Mason's house

Grandma's G's house
and Lynsey's train