Custom Order for Categories in Wordpress

I would like to use the get_categories() function in wordpress to display categories in a specific custom order. There seems to be no easy way to do this.

This is my current code:

        $cat_order = array(26,31,30,35,34,37,36,33,38,28,32,29,27);
        $category_args = array(
            'order'                    => 'ASC',
            'include'                  => $cat_order,
        ); 
        $categories = get_categories( $category_args ); 

For some reason I cannot order them by the specified order in the array. Is this even possible? It is possible for posts.