My Baby Boy Always Fights Me on Nasal Aspiration!!! Any Suggestions?

My adorable son is 7 1/2 months old. In many ways, he's a typical baby boy. He's playful and fun. A bit rough and tumble. In other ways, he's not quite that typical.

Generally, his height and weight are reserved for a 2-year-old. He is also quite strong for his age. While looking at and lifting him, you would think he were a toddler. This strength usually works in his favor. Such as in the instance(s) I am going to tell you about in the following paragraphs.

My "little" one hates having anything above his neck cleaned (or messed with in any way). Fortunately, if you adequately distract him, you can sneakily clean his ears or wash his hair. Also, if you're quick, you can wash his face or clean his eyes. What I tend to have the biggest problem with is aspirating his nose.

I originally tried the basic models of aspirators, such as this (Grey) Scooba® Suction Bulb. He fought me on that. As he got older, I figured I'd try something a little more "modern" (:-P) and see if that might work in our favor.

At that point, I bought the Bébésounds Nasal Clear Battery Operated Nasal Aspirator. I was able to use it's 12 different children's tunes to distract him for a few weeks. I think he also liked the gentle hum that it emits while vibrating. But once he got older (and obviously wiser), he would fight that like crazy.

As a last resort, I also bought saline nasal spray, such as Little Noses Saline Spray/Drops, Non-Medicated Relief for Dry or staffy Noses - 1 Oz. I thought that maybe if I helped to loosen the mucus, I could get in and out a lot faster. That was to no avail.

The products listed all perform wonderfully, as promised. They all do make it physically easier to get mucus out of a child's nose. (With my current favorite still being the Bébésounds Nasal Clear Battery Operated Nasal Aspirator.) But what about the emotional aspect?

These days, as soon as my son sees the aspirator headed for his face, he fights back. And I mean, he tries his hardest to turn over, turn his head away, use his hands to shield his face or bat me away, etc. And remember, he's a big boy. It wouldn't be that easy to restrain him if I wanted to.

Also, it's really difficult watching him react the way he does. He acts like he's being violated every single time. I hate to feel as if I'm doing something wrong to him, everytime I need to clean out his nose.

Does anyone have any suggestions for me? Is this just something we'll have to live with? Or has anyone found a successful way to do this with THEIR child that might help me and my child's current situation?