I had an on off happy childhood but I wasn't your typical girly child, didn't have lots of toys etc due to finances etc and didn't seem to win things - including at sports day etc or starring in Nativity Play.
Anyway I was 9 or 10 and there was a local newspaper you could buy ran a competition to make your own Easter Bonnet and win the prize of a ginormous Easter egg. I've always been good at crafts and spent ages making a great Easter Bonnet and to my great surprise I won - got my photo in the newspaper and the huge Easter Egg - my mum was saying - she never wins anything. Well, I did that day, so proud! 
What are your unexpected proud memories from childhood?