Milk / bottle association in a 2.9 yr old

[MyBoyJakey]

DS will drink water and juice from a open cup and never had a problem with the transition to a beaker when he was younger, my problem now is that he just associates milk with a bottle. He still has a milk in a bottle at bedtime, morning and evenings, and I guess I don't have a problem with that (altho it is my plan to get rid completely by 3rd birthday!), but after having a conversation with him this morning its made me wonder how I go about breaking that association that 'milk can only be drank from a bottle - his words!. I have tried over the past few months to introduce a 'special' milk cup but with no avail! Any help/advice would be much appreciated

I know you said you had tried special cups and things but maybe you could try buying him a child size mug (like the one you get with chocolate eggs in this time of year)
Then make it a new thing GOATS milk might work to get him to sit down with you and both have a hot/warm drink in a mug that is not quite the normal cows 'milk can only be drank from a bottle" (Sound like you have checky one there like mine) but a specail goats milk just for him that has to be drunk for a big boys mug. (then swap back to cows milk after he has got used to the mug idea if you want to)

Might work, new mug, a warm drink thats not the normal cows milk that is just for him and his mug and dont talk about the B word just how he is big boy with a big mug like mummy has...

My little one has milk cows or goats (up to him which) warm and cold both with breakfast and before bed which works great for us as I get a cupa and he can copy mummy and have a story before bed not a bottle in the house any more.

Hope it might help.