Make Sidebar Nav Sort Order Match Nav Menu Order

I had to change the order in my navigation menu, but the sidebar nav order did not update. I do have some tweaks in my child theme functions which I got from you to make the parent pages act as links. Here is the code I have in the functions.php. Please tell me what to change so the sort order will update to match the navigation:

function avia_sidebar_menu($echo = true)
{
$sidebar_menu = “”;

$subNav = avia_get_option(‘page_nesting_nav’);

$the_id = @get_the_ID();
$args = array();
global $post;

if($subNav && $subNav != ‘disabled’ && !empty($the_id) && is_page())
{
$subNav = false;
$parent = $post->ID;
$sidebar_menu = “”;

if (!empty($post->post_parent))
{
if(isset($post->ancestors)) $ancestors = $post->ancestors;
if(!isset($ancestors)) $ancestors = get_post_ancestors($post->ID);
$root = count($ancestors)-1;
$parent = $ancestors[$root];
}

$args = array(‘title_li’=>”, ‘child_of’=>$parent, ‘echo’=>0, ‘sort_column’=>’menu_order, post_title’);

//enables user to change query args
$args = apply_filters(‘avia_sidebar_menu_args’, $args, $post);

//hide or show child pages in menu – if the class is set to ‘widget_nav_hide_child’ the child pages will be hidden
$display_child_pages = apply_filters(‘avia_sidebar_menu_display_child’, ‘widget_nav_hide_child’, $args, $post);

$children = wp_list_pages($args);
$permalink = get_permalink($post->post_parent);

if ($children)
{
$default_sidebar = false;
$sidebar_menu .= “<nav class=’widget widget_nav_menu $display_child_pages’>
<ul class=’nested_nav’>”;
$sidebar_menu .= ““.get_the_title( $post->post_parent ).”“;
$sidebar_menu .= $children;
$sidebar_menu .= ”
</nav>”;
}
}

$sidebar_menu = apply_filters(‘avf_sidebar_menu_filter’, $sidebar_menu, $args, $post);

if($echo == true) { echo $sidebar_menu; } else { return $sidebar_menu; }
}
/* end add parent page to sidebar menu */