Our girls turn one next week and I am starting to get nervous about bottle weaning. I'd like to go cold turkey - they are generally low maintenance about most things and I think they will be fine switching... as soon as they can actually learn how to drink from a sippy or straw cup!

We have tried so many different sippys and straw cups and they just can't seem to get the hang of any of them. Which is surprising, because they are great at feeding themselves their bottles - they can even do it one-handed, standing up. The most promising cups have been the silicone spout ones, so for the last week or two we have only offered those in the hopes that consistency is key... but so far, no success.

We have been offering water in sippys/straw cups consistently since 7 or 8 months, but anything they have gotten out of the cups is incidental to their chewing on the spouts or straws. We've tried with valves, without valves - they are more interested in playing with/chewing on the cups and the no-valve option has resulted more than once in an empty cup with little or nothing going down the hatch. They can drink out of an open cup but not without assistance, which makes that option a non-starter for two at the same time.

We gave them formula in sippys last night instead of a bottle after dinner/before bed, but they are usually not all that hungry after eating dinner so it went mostly untouched. This morning we offered their wake-up bottle (the one they usually are hungriest for) as a sippy instead, and it was NOT popular, although I did see some progress in getting formula into their mouths at least. Still, they only got about an ounce down in nearly an hour. Our nanny is planning to offer only sippys all day today, so we will see how it goes... but I don't want to have the girls get no liquids all day!

Any advice for the babies that just chew on the sippy or straw? They have the tilt down, but they won't suck!