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we usually give water at meals and he gets milk usually around twice a day. He gets one sometimes early in the morning when he wakes up crying. Sometimes one right before naptime (Sometimes, mostly likely he doesn't anymore at 15 months.) or if were going out he will get a sippy cup of it in the afternoon.
for example,
today he got one at 7am (gets up to drink it and hten goes back to bed til around 9am) and then another around 5pm when we were out.

M gets cows milk 3x / day and water with meals.

6:30 am - 6 oz milk
8:30 - breakfast
9 - nap
11 - 4 oz milk
1:30p - lunch
2 - nap
4:30 - 6 oz milk
6:30 - dinner
7 - bed

M's pedi said 12-20 oz per day is good (I'm no longer BF). If you're BF morning and night I really wouldn't worry much about getting a large quantity of cow's milk - especially if LO gets some other dairy in his diet.

ETA - I posted this exact question right before we transitioned to cows milk. These things always seem less complicated afterwards

I give LO three cups of milk a day with milk. She gets water at snack time and all throughout the day. She always has a cup of water around.

Starting at 12 months I always just gave my daughter cows milk at every meal and snack -- so up to 5 times per day. She drinks plenty, but not enough to go over the max amount her pedi wants her to have in a day.

We also do milk with meals and water throughout the day/as requested. We continued to nurse am/pm for a long time and this seemed to work well for us.

LO is 12.5 months and I usually give him a little but of milk first thing in the morning- he'll usually drink a few sips. He also drinks a little bit after each nap and he drinks a bottle of 6-8 ounces at bedtime (that's the only bottle of the day). He drinks 12-16 ounces per day....closer to 12 most days.

Though it may seem unusual, since we've dealt with mspi I've been doing a lot of digging into the benefits and necessity of dairy and I would say this: do you really need to offer milk at all?

Quick post I liked:
http://www.mckennagordon.com/blog/do-babies-need-milk-after-12-months

Just a thought

We don't do milk at meals, my husband and I were both raised by European parents and they just don't consume milk the same way we do in the US. Plus, milk with spaghetti and tomato sauce, just doesn't go together in my book.

Anywho, my son consumed milk twice a day at 12 months, he kind of weaned himself from the afternoon milk and I was okay with it because at that time, he ate a lot of cheese and yogurt.

I looked at the list of foods on that blog above, it my son would eat anything on that list, I would gladly give it to him, but my reality is that he won't even consider that stuff, so milk it is.